Harold J. Laski: “I cannot believe that, in such an atmosphere, liberty will be a matter of serious concern to the possessors of power.”

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.